hello there, Bernard

I’m very pleased that yesterday i thought of a BRILLIANT question to ask you!!!

Lets do a bit of Time Travelling and imagine that YOU are a young gentlemen of the Napoleonic Period and you want to “do your bit”. What branch of Service would you choose?

Royal Navy? Marines? Artillery? Engineers? Rifles? Redcoat? Cavalry? or maybe a spot with the old EIC? or maybe (Horror of Horrors!) the FRENCH Army? After all they did have the best uniforms!

And how far do you think your skills and luck would get you? Major Cornwell? Maybe even General? or would you be one of those poor Subalterns who ended up dead as dodos in their first battle? Would you in fact be one of those junior officers you yourself enjoy killing off?

i think i would would want to be a Sgt. Either Red or Green. Good Sgts are what made the whole thing work!

Sgt Copley reporting for duty, Sir!

And in an unrelated question, in Sharpe’s command, which I’m assuming you’ve finished…will  we be seeing the return of the much-missed Commendante Teresa?

Kind regards as ever

Sgt Matthew Copley